Drugs in Nazi Germany

Norman Ohler was born in Zweibrücken in 1970. He is the author of four novels. His first non-fiction book „Blitzed“ about drugs in the Third Reich became a world-wide bestselle...
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Was Drug use rife within the Third Reich? How did methamphetamines shape the way Nazi soldiers worked? Did Hitler himself have a problem? Join author & historian Norman Ohler for an astonishing talk, which delves into the never before explored history of Germany's darkest hour.

The sensational account of the overwhelming role of drug-taking in the third reich - from Hitler and his entourage to ordinary troops and housewives.

Norman Ohler investigates the murky, chaotic world of drug use in the Third Reich. Ohler's book is the first to show how the entire Nazi regime was a perfomance society permeated with drugs - cocaine, heroin, morphine and methamphetamines, the last of these crucial to troops' resilience and partly explaining German victory in 1940.

Ohler is explicit that drugs cannot explain Third Reich ideology, but their promiscuous use impaired and confused decision-making, with drastic effects on Hitler and his entourage, who, as the war turned against Germany, took refuge in ever more poorly understood cocktails of stimulants. This chemical euphoria changes how we should think about the Nazi high command and its ability to understand the situation it found itself in by 1944-5.

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Was Drug use rife within the Third Reich? How did methamphetamines shape the way Nazi soldiers worked? Did Hitler himself have a problem? Join author & historian Norman Ohler for an astonishing talk, which delves into the never before explored...
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